OpenATV SoftCam Feed Discussion Thread

Quote from s3n0

bronsky wants to use two softcams simultaneously - Oscam + Cccam at the same time. Although I explained that it is better to use only one, ideally Oscam in which of course the cccam protocol works correctly.

I dont use same time I want choose in softpanel choice oscam or other emu

Hello Good Morning,

I just downloaded and installed the OpenAtv Softcam Feed 6--plus. ipk on OpenAtv 6.2 and downloaded Mgcamd 1.45 having a personal line then InfoPanel>>Softcam-Setup where i can see the mgcamd , I activate it but nothin' happens, at the line Cardserver there is "none"...then went to init d found Cardserver.sh open it but don't know I can change at all, there is also a CardserverNone :

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: cardserver

# Required-Start:

# Required-Stop:

# Should-Start: networking

# Default-Start: 3 4

# Default-Stop: 0 1 6

# Short-Description: nocardserver

# Description: Dummy card-server null-support.

### END INIT INFO

# Placeholder for no card-server

exit 0

Any help? Thanks

Quote from abu baniaz

You only need a card server if you have a card in your receiver and serving it to other devices.

With regards to your mgcamd not working, can you upload your mg_cfg that you transferred to /usr/keys You will need to zip the file before uploading it. If you did not transfer one, that is the reason why it is not working.

Thanks for answering abu baniaz,

I'm using Mgcamd on Amiko Alien +2 ,i only changed this 3 parameters (<<<<<<<<<) in the default mg_cfg and it has always worked:

on screen display type

# 00 No OSD (default)

# 01 neutrino

# 02 enigma

# 03 relook

# + user password for http auth

O: { 02 } username password <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< from 00

network mode, use summ for several clients

# 00 no network (default)

# 01 newcamd netclient

# 02 radegast netclient

# 04 camd3 netclient

# 08 gbox netclient

# 32 cccamd netclient, card list saved as /tmp/cccamd.info

# (ECM only, supported server version up to 2.1.1, later not work)

G: { 32 } <<<<<<<<<<

and

# box type

# 00 autodetect, change only if you think wrong type detected.

# 01 dbox2

# 02 dreambox

# 03 triple-dragon

# 04 relook

# 05 openbox

# 06 dreambox/mips

# 08 stapi/kathrein

# 09 stapi/ipbox

# 11 stapi/openbox

B: { 11 } <<<<<<<<<<<<< changed from (06) .... (00 wouldn't work)

cccamd list is the one I've always used and has always worked , the conf files are placed in /usr/keys with newcamd.list, priority.list ,replace.list ,peer.cfg and softcam.key........

I can see as I wrote the cam in InfoPanel>>> Softcam-Setup Panel but pushing the green button nothin' happens...

Quote from abu baniaz

Start the Cam by command line and see what it says.

Sorry Abu Baniaz but i don't know the command, anyway I noticed that 2 files were created in usr/keys cccamd.list.opkg and mg__cfg.opkg in addition to the ccamd.list and mg_cfg files, and if I try creating a mgcamd.emu file to place in /etc?

IT gives me this:

/usr/bin# line 1 C: parse error 1

line 2 C: parse error 1

line 3 C: parse error 1

network port XXXXX open

The MgCamd downloaded from the vOpenAtv 6 plus feed is the 1.45 b being the only one

I installed then the 1.38 d sh4.ipk and it was placed in /usr/bin/cam folder with the name "mgcamd_1.38 d"

but no emu file figures in /etc

try to give the command

cd /usr/bin/cam

./mgcamd_1.38 d but no such file or directory......

I have taken much of your time sorry Abu Baniaz! I think will reflash and use the softcam feed 3......( I've also tried Oscam Ncam with same results)

I forgot one thing ...in the OpenAtv 6 plus feed figures a Cccam 2.1.4..... i've always known that CCcam doesn't work on Sh4.....

Thanks for all Abu Baniaz

From today softcam panel removed on updates https://github.com/openatv/eni…d9829f82e1c669270f5514c4a so if using softcam panel don't do software updates

The recommended way of installing the OpenATV secret feed is typing this one line on a shell session on the box:

wget -O - -q http://updates.mynonpublic.com/oea/feed | bash

The easiest method of getting a shell session to the box is the "Terminal" in OpenWebif, but feel free to use puTTy or whatever you already use.

That one-liner makes sure you get the latest version of the feed for your actual image version and architecture.

No need to download the IPK, copy it to the box and installing it through GUI or shell when using the one-liner but you are still free to use an IPK, if you insist on it.

Use version 4.3r2 or later in that case.

The new feed supports OpenATV 5.3 through 6.3, that is "the last 5 versions of OpenATV".

In OpenATV 5.3 to 6.1 you will only have one place to configure the CAMs, that is in "Menu -> Settings -> Decryption", because it would probably cause more problems to patch it into old versions of E2, while that hook in "Menu -> Settings -> Decryption" is just a plugin.

Starting as of OpenATV 6.2 (Images 2019-06-15 and later), the softcams can be configured in three places:

- "Menu -> Info Panel", just as before with softcam panel

- "Quick Menu" (In most cases on blue key or long blue key), just as before with softcam panel

- "Menu -> Settings -> Decryption and parental protection", as it is the most logical place to search at if you aren't already used to the other places

The softcam panel was entirely removed due to user problems, e.g. one team member losing his line due to double logins (He had two oscams running in parallel, one through the new method, one through the old one), so to avoid problems, having both methods inside the image appeared a bigger problem than making a cut here.

Installing the feed through older IPKs, like versions 2.0 or 3.0, will only get you an empty secret feed, except for one package: The new secret feed :)

The new feed has multiple advantages:

• All CAMs that can be built from source code (All OScams and Ncam) are built from source code using the matching OpenATV build environment, that means they perfectly fit the libraries inside the actual image.
  

  oscams on the feed for OpenATV 6.3 are built inside the OpenATV 6.3 build environment, oscams on the feed for OpenATV 6.2 are built inside the OpenATV 6.2 build environment, oscams on the feed for OpenATV 6.1 are built inside the OpenATV 6.1 build environment and so on.

  Most CAMs you can download from forums are simply built in generic cross-compiler environments that do usually not really contain the matching libs ...

• All OScams and Ncam are built every night if their sources get updated.
  

  If you install oscam-trunk, you will always get the latest one with a maximum delay of 24h.

  For conservative users that do not want to live on the edge, there is oscam-stable, which will give you oscam svn11518 until there is some really important change in trunk and that change has proved being stable (By not being changed again within the next weeks).

• Starting CAMs through init.d is more robust and stable than forking them as childs of E2 (That's why there isn't a "watchdog" anymore, it's simply not needed)
• CAMs started through init.d are easier to maintain remotely
  

  You can simply start/stop/restart them from the shell

  Code

  root@quad4k ~ # /etc/init.d/softcam stop
  Stopping Softcam service oscam-smod: OK
  root@quad4k ~ # /etc/init.d/softcam start
  Starting Softcam service oscam-smod: OK
  root@quad4k ~ # /etc/init.d/softcam restart
  Stopping Softcam service oscam-smod: OK
  Starting Softcam service oscam-smod: OK
  root@quad4k ~ # /etc/init.d/softcam status
  Softcam service oscam-smod: Running.

  e.g. after editing config files.

  No need to mess around with "kill", "killall" commands or figuring out if you need to background the cam manually or if it will background automatically if you start it directly via shell.

• CAMs started through init.d are ready when you are ...
  

  As the CAM starts early during boot, it has time enough to initialize card readers or server connections to decrypt instantly as soon as E2 can tune.

  Python CAM start added a delay, because starting the CAM didn't happen any earlier than tuning the startup/previous station